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Recipes for simanim (signs) for Rosh Hashanah’s symbolic foods

A play on words and a plea for blessings. Start the Jewish New Year with a variety of salads that symbolize things you desire. Rosh...

5 Tips to Save You Time and Energy in the Kitchen

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Make authentic Egyptian molokhia, soup of the enlightened

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Nursing in the Middle East

A How to avoid common pitfalls that undermine breastfeeding in the Islamic world. Dr. Modia Batterjee, the author of A Fading Art: Understanding Breastfeeding in...

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Salt comes in many forms and has many uses. How many are you aware of? One of the most common features of a set table...

Food For Thought – Iron Chef America’s Vegetarian Challenge

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Missing That Special Herb? Abu Dhabi Pesticide Testing Slows Supply

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Some Tips to Help Break Your Coffee Habit

If coffee is the only way you can give yourself a kick start, then you need to find a healthier way to start your...

Bee venom therapy, apitherapy

Bee venom therapy, called apitherapy, can help arthritis and immune disorders, say beenkeepers and therapists who sting for a living

RECIPE: Compote, A Cool Healthy Dessert For Summer

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Peak Wheat? One Tenth of Iraq’s Wheat Attacked by Killer Fungus

A heat wave in Russia topples its wheat supply, leaving Egypt in the lurch. And threats of shortages, have international media in a panic....

Complications of Coffee – A Habit Worth Kicking

Turkish, espresso or instant. The Middle East loves its coffee. The excitement of a good cup of coffee is familiar, but what other more...

Pink mountain salt, sea salt, or mined?

Rock salt, Redmond sea salt, table salt, pink Himalayan salt. How much salt is in your diet might be the more important question. When it...

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Baby teeth read like tree rings paint a picture of toxins in early life

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York offers a striking insight into how the environments we are born into can quietly shape our brains years later. By analyzing naturally shed baby teeth, the ones tucked under pillows for the tooth fairy, researchers have reconstructed a detailed timeline of exposure to environmental metals during pregnancy and early infancy.

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A new breed of luxury has landed on the Red Sea, mirrored pods floating above coral reefs, reflecting sky and sea like something not entirely of this Earth. Energy powered by solar powers, drinking water pulled from the sea using desalination. 

Roof replacements and a changing culture of all-women teams in Canada

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Poop in the East River shows the city’s rat problem and what people like to eat

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Billie Eilish’s Mom Maggie Baird Launches “Climate Kitchen” on Public TV

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Monitoring farmers’ tillage patterns from space

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Hydrophilis SCUBA gear could make us one with the sea

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Alcohol the night before work in the heat may raise inflammation, study finds

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